October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 10:00 am | 90 minutes

Trump, Inc.

The man and his money. With Michael Avenatti, David Barstow, Ruth Marcus, and Felix Sater. Moderated by Adam Davidson.

Politics and Nonfiction

Photograph by Andy Smy / Alamy

Michael Avenatti is an attorney and a legal commentator who has appeared on “60 Minutes” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” among other programs. He has worked at various law firms, including Greene Broillet & Wheeler, where he settled a lawsuit against “The Apprentice” producers Mark Burnett and Donald Trump. He previously provided opposition research and media consulting for state and national political campaigns across the country. George Washington University Law School, his alma mater, established an award in his name for excellence in pretrial and trial advocacy. He is currently representing Stormy Daniels in her multiple lawsuits against the President.

Ruth Marcus is the deputy editorial page editor at the Washington Post, where she has worked since 1984. In 2003, she became a member of the editorial board, and, in 2006, she started a regular column covering domestic politics and policy. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Felix Sater was born in Moscow and grew up in Brooklyn. He has been a real-estate developer and a confidant to Donald Trump, and he founded Bayrock, a real-estate firm that developed the Trump SoHo hotel and other Trump projects. At Trump’s request, he guided Ivanka and Donald, Jr., on a visit to Moscow. Earlier in his life, he was a successful Wall Street executive who was recruited by the C.I.A. and the D.I.A. for national-security work in multiple countries. He spent a year in prison, was implicated in a federal complaint for taking part in a Wall Street pump-and-dump scam, became a coöperator with the F.B.I., helped hunt Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, went undercover in Cyprus and Istanbul as part of an operation to catch Russian and Ukrainian cybercriminals, and much more.

Adam Davidson is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering business, technology, and economics. Previously, he was a contributing writer for the Times Magazine. He also co-founded and co-hosted NPR’s “Planet Money.” A frequent contributor to “This American Life,” he co-reported the episode “The Giant Pool of Money,” which received a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, and a George Polk Award. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and other publications.